You are not serious people, but you can still ace the quiz. These 120 Succession trivia questions cover Logan Roy, Kendall, Shiv, Roman, Connor, Tom, Greg, Waystar Royco, ATN, cruises, board votes, weddings, election night, insults, power grabs, and every horrifying family business dinner across all four seasons.
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The Roy Family & Waystar Royco
Q: Who is the patriarch of the Roy family?
A: Logan Roy.
Q: Who plays Logan?
A: Brian Cox.
Q: What company does Logan control?
A: Waystar Royco.
Q: What industries does Waystar span?
A: Media, news, entertainment, cruises, parks, and related businesses.
Q: What conservative cable-news network belongs to Waystar?
A: ATN.
Q: What does ATN broadly parody?
A: Powerful partisan cable-news networks.
Q: Who is Logan's oldest son?
A: Connor Roy.
Q: Who plays Connor?
A: Alan Ruck.
Q: Who is Logan's eldest child from a later marriage and would-be successor?
A: Kendall Roy.
Q: Who plays Kendall?
A: Jeremy Strong.
Q: Who is Logan's daughter?
A: Siobhan “Shiv” Roy.
Q: Who plays Shiv?
A: Sarah Snook.
Q: Who is Logan's youngest son?
A: Roman Roy.
Q: Who plays Roman?
A: Kieran Culkin.
Q: Who is Shiv married to?
A: Tom Wambsgans.
Q: Who plays Tom?
A: Matthew Macfadyen.
Q: Who is Greg Hirsch?
A: Logan's grandnephew and an awkward Waystar climber.
Q: Who plays Greg?
A: Nicholas Braun.
Q: What family member connects Greg to Logan?
A: Greg's grandfather Ewan Roy is Logan's brother.
Q: What is Ewan's relationship with Logan?
A: Deeply antagonistic despite family ties.
Q: Who is Logan's third wife during most of the series?
A: Marcia Roy.
Q: What country is Logan originally from?
A: Scotland.
Q: What visible marks on Logan's back hint at childhood abuse?
A: Scars.
Q: What event launches the succession crisis?
A: Logan's health emergency and refusal to relinquish control.
Q: What is Kendall expecting at the series start?
A: To become chief executive.
Q: Does Logan hand him control as planned?
A: No.
Q: What business phrase defines the family's central problem?
A: Succession planning.
Q: Do the siblings work together consistently?
A: No. Alliances shift constantly.
Q: What does Logan use affection as?
A: A scarce reward and instrument of control.
Q: Why is Waystar more than a backdrop?
A: The company turns family approval, money, politics, and corporate power into the same contest.
Kendall, Shiv, Roman, Connor, Tom & Greg
Q: What personal struggle repeatedly affects Kendall?
A: Addiction.
Q: What musical performance does Kendall give at Logan's celebration?
A: “L to the OG.”
Q: What does the performance celebrate?
A: Logan's business legacy.
Q: What catastrophic event occurs at Shiv's wedding?
A: Kendall drives with a waiter, crashes into water, and the waiter dies.
Q: Does Kendall immediately confess publicly?
A: No.
Q: How does Logan use the accident?
A: To pull Kendall back under his control.
Q: What political career does Shiv have outside Waystar?
A: Political strategist.
Q: What candidate does Shiv advise early on?
A: Gil Eavis.
Q: What promise does Logan dangle before Shiv?
A: Naming her his successor.
Q: Does he give her a clear timetable?
A: No.
Q: What is Roman's work style?
A: Provocative, impulsive, insecure, funny, and sometimes surprisingly perceptive.
Q: Who becomes Roman's unconventional mentor?
A: Gerri Kellman.
Q: Who plays Gerri?
A: J. Smith-Cameron.
Q: What inappropriate behavior damages Roman's relationship with Gerri?
A: Sending explicit images and sexual messages.
Q: What embarrassing mistake sends one image to the wrong person?
A: Roman accidentally sends an explicit photo to Logan.
Q: What has Connor been interested in from a very young age, according to a famous line?
A: Politics.
Q: What office does Connor run for?
A: President of the United States.
Q: Who is Connor's partner and eventual wife?
A: Willa Ferreyra.
Q: What is Willa's career?
A: Playwright and former escort.
Q: What nickname does Tom give Greg?
A: Greg the Egg.
Q: What bizarre relationship develops between Tom and Greg?
A: Bullying, mentorship, dependency, competition, and loyalty.
Q: What documents does Greg secretly save from destruction?
A: Cruises scandal documents.
Q: What does Tom make Greg do with many of those documents?
A: Shred them.
Q: What does Greg keep?
A: Copies or selected documents as leverage.
Q: What phrase does Tom use for congressional testimony practice?
A: He drills Greg in absurd ways while preparing for the cruises hearing.
Q: What luxury food does Tom force Greg to eat at a restaurant?
A: An ortolan-like experience is discussed elsewhere, while their food and drink scenes often show Greg's discomfort in elite settings.
Q: What does “boar on the floor” refer to?
A: Logan's humiliating game forcing executives to crawl and fight for sausages.
Q: Who is Frank Vernon?
A: Senior Waystar executive and longtime Logan associate.
Q: Who is Karl Muller?
A: Waystar's chief financial officer.
Q: Why are Tom and Greg so memorable?
A: They translate the Roy family's brutality into a bizarre workplace friendship filled with threats, jokes, and mutual need.
Cruises, GoJo, Politics & Logan's Death
Q: What scandal threatens Waystar?
A: Abuse and cover-ups in its cruise division.
Q: What chilling phrase summarizes how victims were treated?
A: “No real person involved,” often abbreviated NRPI.
Q: Who publicly takes responsibility at the end of Season 2?
A: Kendall appears ready to, then turns on Logan at the press conference.
Q: What does Kendall accuse Logan and Waystar of?
A: Knowing about and concealing misconduct.
Q: Does this permanently remove Logan?
A: No.
Q: What technology company becomes central to the final seasons?
A: GoJo.
Q: Who leads GoJo?
A: Lukas Matsson.
Q: Who plays Matsson?
A: Alexander Skarsgård.
Q: What is the proposed Waystar-GoJo deal?
A: GoJo acquiring Waystar Royco.
Q: Why do the Roy siblings oppose it at times?
A: They want control of the company and distrust Matsson.
Q: What happens during Connor's wedding day?
A: Logan dies unexpectedly aboard a plane.
Q: Is Logan's death shown in a conventional dramatic deathbed scene?
A: No.
Q: How do the siblings learn about it?
A: Through a chaotic phone call from Tom on the plane.
Q: What episode contains Logan's death?
A: “Connor's Wedding.”
Q: What makes the episode unusually realistic?
A: The family receives fragmentary information and reacts in real time without certainty or closure.
Q: Who is with Logan on the plane?
A: Tom and senior Waystar executives, among others.
Q: What newspaper-style question immediately follows Logan's death?
A: Who controls Waystar and how the market will react.
Q: Who become interim co-CEOs?
A: Kendall and Roman.
Q: What role does Shiv have in that arrangement?
A: She is excluded from the formal co-CEO titles and increasingly frustrated.
Q: What presidential election becomes a huge storyline?
A: The fictional contest involving Jeryd Mencken and Daniel Jiménez.
Q: Which candidate does ATN controversially call as winner?
A: Jeryd Mencken.
Q: Who pushes hardest for that call?
A: Roman, while Kendall ultimately allows it.
Q: Why does Shiv oppose Mencken?
A: She sees him as dangerously authoritarian and backs the Democratic side.
Q: What personal secret is Shiv hiding during much of Season 4?
A: She is pregnant.
Q: Who is the father?
A: Tom.
Q: What does Matsson secretly admit about India subscriber numbers?
A: GoJo's reported subscriber figures there are inflated.
Q: Whom does Shiv initially believe Matsson may choose to run the U.S. operation?
A: Her.
Q: Does Matsson ultimately choose Shiv?
A: No.
Q: Who does he choose?
A: Tom Wambsgans.
Q: Why does Matsson favor Tom?
A: Tom is willing to execute the owner's agenda rather than demand independent power.
The Finale, Famous Lines & Hard Succession Trivia
Q: What is the series finale called?
A: “With Open Eyes.”
Q: What decision defines the finale?
A: The board vote on selling Waystar to GoJo.
Q: Who wants to block the sale and become CEO?
A: Kendall.
Q: Who is the decisive sibling vote?
A: Shiv.
Q: Does Shiv ultimately support Kendall?
A: No.
Q: What does she do?
A: Votes for the GoJo sale.
Q: What traumatic past event does Shiv bring up while arguing with Kendall?
A: The waiter who died after Shiv's wedding.
Q: How does Kendall respond?
A: He desperately claims it did not happen or was a false story.
Q: What does Roman say about the siblings' business legitimacy?
A: They are “bullshit,” recognizing that their inherited status does not make them serious operators.
Q: Who becomes U.S. CEO under GoJo?
A: Tom.
Q: What happens to Greg after betraying Tom's information?
A: Tom keeps him, but makes clear Greg's status and salary will change.
Q: Where is Kendall in the final shot?
A: Sitting by the water in Battery Park, watched by Colin.
Q: What has Kendall lost?
A: The company and the identity he built around inheriting it.
Q: What ambiguous gesture closes Tom and Shiv's story?
A: Their hands rest together without warmth in the car.
Q: Who is Colin?
A: Logan's longtime security chief and fixer.
Q: What phrase does Logan use about his children late in the series?
A: “I love you, but you are not serious people.”
Q: What does the line summarize?
A: Logan's belief that his children want power without developing the discipline or judgment to wield it.
Q: What is Connor's famous self-description about politics?
A: He was interested in politics from a very young age.
Q: What is “ludicrously capacious” in a famous Tom insult?
A: A large Burberry handbag.
Q: Who brings the bag?
A: Cousin Greg's date.
Q: What does Tom compare it to?
A: Something large enough for lunch and flat shoes for the subway.
Q: What is the show's opening theme famous for?
A: A tense piano-and-strings composition over faux family home-movie footage.
Q: Who composed the score?
A: Nicholas Britell.
Q: What network originally aired Succession?
A: HBO.
Q: Who created Succession?
A: Jesse Armstrong.
Q: How many seasons does Succession have?
A: Four.
Q: What is the show's central question beyond “who gets the company”?
A: Whether people shaped by wealth, abuse, and competition can build identities independent of the power they inherit.
Q: Why is the show's dialogue so memorable?
A: Corporate jargon, grotesque insults, emotional evasions, and abrupt jokes make every negotiation feel dangerous and absurd.
Q: Why is Succession especially deep trivia material?
A: Boardroom strategy, family history, political media, business deals, marriages, betrayals, recurring insults, and tiny changes in alliances all matter.
Q: What does the finale prove about the title?
A: The succession happens, but not in the way any Roy child imagined.
How Did You Score?
If NRPI, Boar on the Floor, “L to the OG,” the dead waiter, Connor's Wedding, the India numbers, Tom's promotion, and the decisive board vote all came easily, you may be a serious person after all.
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